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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
scornach f (genitive singular scornaí, nominative plural scornacha)
- throat (front part of the neck; gullet or windpipe)
Declension
Further reading
- “scornach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scornach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scórnach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 614
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scornach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 16
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21